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Professional Cards A. P. CULLEY, Attornsy & GonnseloT at-Law (Office: Kikst National Bank) Loup City, Ncbr. RoTnY!\s rARR Attorney-at-Law. LOUP CITY. flEBRUSKfi AARON WALL La.’wyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. R. J. NIGHTINGALE LOUP CITY. NEB R. H. MATHEW, Attorney-at-Law, And Bonded Abstractor, Loup City, Nebraska O. E. LONGACRE Office, Over New Bank. TELEPHONE CALL, NO. :t9 A. J. KEARNS j PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON; I'hone, JO. Office at Residence j Lnup City - Nebraska1 S. A. ALLEN. D EJYTI8T, LOUP CITY, - - NEB. Office up stairs in the new State Bank building. W, L. MARCY, DENTIST, LOUP SITY, nee.: OFFICE: East Side Public Satiate Phone, 10 on .‘Mi ,rr. h. .ti/;./it Bonded Abstracter Loup City, - Nebraska. Only set of Abstract Looks in county Try the F F- F- ^ay F. F. Foster, Prop. Office; Fester's Barber Shop Farms for Sale in Nebraska and Virginia. For full information see or write A. O. Zim merman, Hallboro, Virginia., or A. L. Zimmerman, Loup City, Neb. THE WONDERFUL BIGHORN BASIN M^iT^Trrrag— To Renters: I have a selected list of irrigated farms in the Basin for rent: why not rent for a year or two and learn the profits from irrigated farm ing in the Basin, and be come acquainted with the climate and desirability of settling in that region? We also help you homestead ir rigated lands, or to buy them at prices that will make you money. Millions of dollars are now being spent irrigating Basin lands Homeseekers’ excursions first and third Tuesdays of 1908. Write D Clem Deaver, General Agent, Landseekers’ Information Bureau, Omaha. Winter Excursions: Homeseekers, excursions first and third Tuesdays to Colorado. Wyo ming, llig Horn Basin, Northwest, • Southwest and South: WINTER TOURIST RATES daily to Florida, the Gulf Country, the South and Southern California. Ask Agent, or the undersigned for rates and details. R. L. ARTHUR, Ticket Agent, Loup City, Neb. L. W. Wakkley, G. P. A. Omaha, Nebraska. The McKinnie Musical Recital. ) MRS. B. P. McKINNIE, formerly Miss Tekla Farm. THE NORTHWESTERN TffiRMS:—fl.OO pek tear, if paid in advanci Entered at the Loup City Postofflee for tranh mission through the mails as second class matter. Office ’Phone, - - - 6 on 108 Residence ’Phone, - 2 on 108 .1. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and fnb Omalia gets tlie democratic state convention on March 5. Will tlie democrats secure their delegations by primary methods’/ It will not be necessary for them to have a primary to express preference for president, as they are all Bryan hero worshippers. If we can't have Roosevelt for the presidency, then the man nearest Roosevelt and nearest his policies and most sure to carry them out, is Taft. We believe, so far as tlio.se mentioned is concerned, Taft would best tit into Roosevelt’s shoes. Don't you. dear reader'/ All the opposition to Bryan as the coming democratic candidate lor the presidency has about died out. even Sullivan of Illinois and Bryan kissing and making up. It isdoubtful if any other name will lie presented to the national democratic convention at Denver. Bryan is ‘‘Heap Big Injun" to democracy._ Wouldn't that puzzle an expert'/ Frank Harrison in an article to the State Journal of a few days since, would lead the readers to infer that the LaFollete I worn is being worked in Nebraska without funds and lie ts a philanthropic individual that is handling the lxiomlet without recom pense! Did anybody ever know Frank to work for glory, with no cash ac com pan i meat?_ The Burlington during the past couple of weeks have been making great reductions in their force of help along their line, and especially at division points. The town of Alliance seems to be coming in for more than its share. Last week over one hun dred workmen were laid off at that division, fifty-seven being let out at one time. It is reported that nearly all of these men have families and it is leaving them in bad shape, especial ly so coming at this time of the year. It is reported that the Burlington lias laid off 17,000 men along their line and that most of them were re ceiving $2 per day. This will certain ly result in much hardship to these thousands of families. The York Republican comes to our desk booming E. ('. Bishop, of that county, at present deputy state super intendent of schools, for the office of State Superintendent of Public In struction. I'rof. Bishop is indeed one of the leading educators of the state and we believe would ably till that important office. While acknow ledging that fact, yet the Northwest ern does not at this time take a stand for Mr. Bishop or any other aspirant for that place till it has the field to look over later. There are many able men along educational lines in’ good old Nebraska, and we are not at this time in position to champion the cause of any certain one. Trot 'em all out and let us see the field. There is one business firm that understands most fully that adver tising pays, much to their discomfort. Some time since the Keystone Lum ber Co. advertised a lot of coal at $2 per ton. which was all taken within a day or two after the paper was out. by our farmer readers, at least seven teen teams being at the lumber yard the following Saturday to get their share. That was good and all right, but the measly editor did not take the adv. out the next week asordered, and the Keystone was kept busy telling its customers that all had been sold the week before, to which they demurred, saying the advertisement was still in the Northwestern. So it was, but the fault lay alone with the forgetful editor. All of which, how ever. proved that advertising pays. ‘Stuck” on That Country I In remitting for the Northwestern’s visits to liis home in the Grand Junc j tion, Colo., country, our friend, Louis j.J. liechthold, takes occasion to speak jin glowing terms of his new home. He says: l'I raised a tine crop last \ear and got tine prices for all of the fruit. Pears netted $2.75 a i»ox and i apples $2 25 a box. These are bushel boxes. Pears average from five to ten boxes to the tree; 160 trees to the acre. Apples average about 25 boxes to the tree; 96 trees to the acre. Peaches froze some but we will have nough for our own use. Talk about ! high-priced land; we've got it. Raw land sells at $500 per acre. Orchard I land, with trees, sells from $500 to <2,000 per acre. That seems fishy, ' but you can come and look up the records for yourself. I like good old 1 Sherman county, all right, and I will I come and sec her some time, but will I have to work my gold mine (orchard) I for a time yet. It never gets cold | here in the" valley, but up in the i mountains she does some good hard freezing, like in Sherman county. 40 [below. Here is our market: Coal. *2.50: alfalfa. *10: wheat, $1.50 per I cwt: oats. $1.60 per cwt: corn. $.180 per cwt: eggs. 30c; butter, 30c; pota toes. $1.25 per cwt: hogs, dressed, *7.5o." Clear Creek. W. Duck of Litchfield is on the sick list. The Brethern are holding revival meetings in Dist. No. 25. Dave Eaton and mother are visit ing friends in this vicinity. Mr. YanWormer is moving on the James Gray tree claim. He comes from York county. School Notes. A report of the first four months of school is: Enrollment at iteginning of term. 280: average daily attend ance. 12o: average number of pupils neither absent nor tardy. 128. Miss Xaumann's pupils have the rage now. They had a party on the ice Saturday afternoon and are now planning another for next Saturday. A fine program is promised and ex pected for tlie next Literary. Friday afternoon. Writing has been put in the place of spelling In the High School for the next semester's work. A few who can write “a decent hand" will be allowed to take spelling. The examinations have come and gone, satisfactorily for some, the opposite for others. Fear Jack London is Lost. The editors of Woman’s Home Com panion, for whom Jack London is sail ing around the world in his little boat Snark. state that lie is now over a month due at Tahiti of the Society Islands, for which place he sailed from Hilo, Hawaii, on October 27th. The gas engine with which the Snark is equipped was not working well when Mr. London left Hawaii, and it is supposed by his publishers that lie has experienced some more trouble with it, or that he has en countered the doldrums of the Pacific by which the little forty-five foot lwat might be buffeted about for days or weeks, to be dropped at length in to a dead sea calm. For such are the equatorial doldrums. London sailed from San Francisco on May 4th and reached Hawaii about a month later. He is accompanied on his voyage around the world by his wife, a captain, an engineer, one sailor and two Japanese servants. London expects to spend seven years on his voyage and to sail completely around the world, stopping at inter esting places wherever he goes. Later reports give the arrival of Mr. London and party, who had been j delayed by an accident to the machi j nery of their boat. _ • It looks at present as though it was the field against Taft for the reput> lican candidacy for the presidency. That being the case, and from all we can learn of those already mentioned, the Northwestern has no hesitancy in naming its choice to be the biggest and brainiest man of all—Taft. If there is anyone better, he has so far been unmentioned. A Hoggish Discussion The “Price of Hogs” discussion go ing on through the medium of the newspapers and farm journals lias reached the acute stage where any thing written on the question he-j comes of absorbing interest to the | growers and sellers of that product. Tiie fact that the packing industries have “tumbled to the racket” since; and advanced prices a few cents, does not make the following "roast” of the packers, by our own Hon. E. II. Kittell, former populist representa tive in the legislature from this county, any the less juicy and inter esting. We give it in full: Editor Nebraska Farmer: I have read your two editorials of recent date in regard to the hog market. | the last one containing my letter toj the Omaha Daily News which you kindly reprint. 1 would say no more about the matter just now, and would ] hope for tietter times for tire hog growers in the near future, only for the reason that I have never learned to stand still and keep my mouth shut while having my pockets picked. in your first editorial you say the packers have lieen obliged to pay an increased rate of interest on bor rowed money and therefore must get even by paying less for hogs. You offer this excuse for the packers on tiie theory, no doubt, that a poor ex cuse is better than none. You must j know very well, as everyone else must know, that the additional inter-] est that the packers have to pay is j but a small sum compared to what i they are beating the farmers out of on 'their hogs. Tiie grain buyers, j probably, have to borrow as much ] money as tiie packers, but I have j heard of no great drop in the price of ; grain on account of any extra inter-{ est they have to pay. You say fur- j Uier mat, me pactvers want, cneap, hogs and the farmers are willing, ap- j partntly, to furnisii them, or words j to that effect. It's true that the farm- j ers are furnisldng the packers cheap] hogs, but they are not doing it will-; ingly. They are selling their hogs j because they have no assurance that; after they have fed all of their corn to them they will be worth any more i than they are now. The packers have the advantage and will pay what they please. There was not enough corn raised in this county this year to; properly fatten the hogs we have; now —there are many counties in the state in the same condition—and if we hold our hogs and feed all of our corn to them, where is the corn to feed the pigs coming on in the spring? What makes the matter particularly aggravating to the hog growers just now is the fact that drouth cut our corn crop in two in the middle, and ! the packers have cut the price of hogs so that they (the hog growers) will get only about one-third as mucli for this year's crop of corn as they did ! for last year's. If ever there was a ! time when farmers needed a good price for hogs, it is right now. You : may be assured that the farmers who j depend on hogs mainly for their in- \ come are not organizing any smile | cluos at present. The packers shrewdly guessed that the people generally, including mostj of the editors of farm papers, would ; think that the fall in live stock j prices was due to the panic. When the farmer finds out that lie has to pay the same old price for everything lie lias to buy. he wonders why the panic just knocked the stuffing out of the prices of his live stock, especially his hogs, and hardly grazed anything else. Funny little panic. Of course, a fall in the price of live stock is to to be expected in panic times for people eat less meat then, but the great fall in the price of hogs was without warrant and the respons ibility rests with the packets. Someone has said, ‘• If a man cheats me once he is to blame, but if the same man cheats me a second time I am to blame..’ The farmers, whom the average city man thinks don’t know enough to come in when it rains, have been thinking a little, and they don't intend to be caught by the packers again with a lot of hogs on hand and no corn to feed them. They are going to raise fewer hogs. This action may cause some people to go hungry for pork, but if an ob ject lesson is needed to show the peo ple of the United States that so large a class as the farmers can't be robbed without it seriously affecting the whole country, let us have the object lesson. The farmers won't continue long to feed high priced corn to low priced hogs just for the exercise they get out of it. The breeding season for hogs is now here and I am going to cause a part of the proposed short age of hogs on my own farm, and will use my influence to get others to do likewise. It’s the only remedy in sight. LUC piCSCIIU ULllUll U1 l/lic pav:iv Cl s» is clearly a case of benefits forgot. For years they have been fattening otf the products of our labor under what was supposed to be a mutual benefit plan, but now at the first op portunity when they have a chance to get us in a corner by reason of a short corn crop, they proceed to jump on us and rob us to a finish. It's a shame that a few men, acting in no official capacity, have the power to set the prices on the products of mil lions of farmers. Snerman Co. E. II. KITTELL. Splendid Farm for Rent. 560 acres of land west of Loup City, loo acres under cultivation. 400 acres fenced: good frame improvements, plenty of water. See W. F. Mason, at the First National Bank, Loup City, Neb. ltoacl > ot Icm‘. (Hughes Hoad) The commissioner appointed to view and locate a road commencing at the southeast ; corner of Section six. Township fourteen. Range fourteen and running thence north one mile on section line between Section live and six and running thence west on Section line between Section six. Township four* teen. Range fourteen, and Section 31. thirty-one. township fifteen. Range fourteen i about 1*5 rods, and terminating at Road No. 178, has reported in favor of the establishment thereof and all claims for damages or objec tions thereto must be filed in the office of the county clerk of Sherman county on or before* noon of the 10th day of March. 190$, or said ros.d will be established without reference thereto. Dated thia 31st day of December. A . D. 1907. C. F. BKC8HAC8EH. County Clerk. I Last pub. Jan. 30 I Watch This Space Hayhurst - Callaway Hardware Co. The maufacturer guarantees the cotton used in this mat tress hass been thoroughly felted by the most improved machinery, therefore. It Will Not Become Lumpy Try it for 30 days, and if not satisfactory, return it and get your money back. Christensen & Ferdinand! Furniture Company. Christensen & Ferdinandt, Undertakers and Embahners i,VVVVVVWVWV§VWWWWW%i I. DEPEWS* I B Blacksmith ® Wagon Maker I o at My shoo ts tbe largest and best equipped non h of the Platte Rivet Bj l have a four hors** engine and a complete line of the latest nmuoveo ina *■ cbitiery, also a force of experienced men who know how to operai* it and j* turn ont a job with neatness and dispatch MY PRICES ARE Rl ASONABLE AND PROMPT R ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS in tumuii linn iiiniiismininriR irnr t b‘: Motpr Car Service Daily to St. Paul and Return Leave Loup City at 7:00 a. m. Arrive in St. Paul S:55 a. m. Return v Leave St. Paul at 3:50 p. ni Trip '( Arrive in LoupCetv5:40 p. m. VIA UNION PACIFIC tickets and full information inquire oft; YV Oolllpriest